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UCLA Student Gets Tasered By Campus Police. Only 33,000 More UCLA Students To Go.

In theory, the spectacle of a UCLA student getting tasered by campus police should upset us:

But lots of things are true "in theory". "In theory", we shouldn't suggest that this video would be even better if the UCLA student fell out of a window and landed on top of West Virginia QB Pat White. And "in theory" Communism works, too.

Previously: UPenn Suicide Bomber Partier Posed With Smiling UPenn President, University of Michigan Campuses Both Charming and Not Charming., John Mearsheimer - Not Anti-Semitic. Just Anti-Semiticish

UPDATE: Blah, blah, blah:

It’s beginning to feel a lot like a UC again on campus. For the first time in years, UCLA students threw down their books and returned to their activist roots by staging a major demonstration this afternoon. Students have been shocked and frustrated by the recent tasering of a UCLA student by UCPD officers at the student library, and it has grown to the point where many are feeling the need to voice their frustration to the masses. There have been many student demonstrations here in the past couple of years, but not many on this scale... Every major news outlet was there to witness the protests taking place. So was LAist.

Maybe it's the time of the morning. Maybe it's the faux outrage. Maybe it's that the phrase "returned to their activist roots" is very stupid. But we're really trying to care about this story and just utterly failing. Can someone explain to us why it's newsworthy when fake liberals ditch class to indulge in their moral exhibitionism? Don't these people have a ticket to get punched on their way to dental school or something?

UPDATE 2: Oh hey - we just remembered why we could care less about these massive power-to-the-people protests. It's because the campus was nowhere near this shaken by the swastikas that someone drew on their campus. So spare us the moral outrage, yeah? Obviously, the cops were overzealous and a few people need to get fired. But this is not Kent State, and so we're kind of ready to move on.

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